Does convergence, not accommodation, cause axial-length elongation at near? A biometric study in teens

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 304-308

  Bayramlar, Hüseyin ^a,b   Çekiç, Osman ^a   Hepşen, Ibrahim F ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Axial length; Convergence; Myopia; Vitreous length

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LENS; MALE; MYOPIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VITREOUS BODY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BIOMETRY; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; EYE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MYDRIATICS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; TROPICAMIDE;

EID: 0033023795     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000055551     Document Type: Article

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